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Cyrus Fourogh
Noted for the "fiery intensity" and "poetic vision" of his playing, Cyrus Forough's reviews comprise a lexicon of superlatives in more than a dozen languages. Mr. Forough is a Laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, first prize winner of the Milwaukee Symphony Violin Competition, and winner of the USIA's National violin/piano Duo Competition with his wife, pianist Carolyn McCracken. The Forough/McCracken duo has performed in recitals notably at the Kennedy Center, The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and at the Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires.
Mr. Forough's recital and orchestra solo appearances throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, the Middle East and in the United States have received unanimous praise by both the critics and the public alike. His live and recorded performances have been broadcast on radio and television on four continents. He has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Belgian National Radio Orchestra, NIRT, The Moscow State Orchestra, and numerous other orchestras internationally.
At age nine he entered the Royal Conservatory of Music as a student of the renowned violinist Arthur Grumiaux. Further studies were with legendary violinists and pedagogues such as David Oistrakh at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and with Josef Gingold at Indiana University.
Mr. Forough is a full time faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and is on the faculty at Roosevelt University's College of Performing Arts in Chicago. He is much in demand and sought after as a pedagogue, and his dedication to teaching has resulted in his students being members of the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The New World Symphony, Calgary Symphony, Houston Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and others. Mr. Forough also teaches highly gifted pre-college students, some of whom have distinguished themselves as first prize winners at competitions such as the International Johansen Competition, the Kingsville International Young Performers Competition, The Illinois Young Performer's Competition, The Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, ASTA, ARTS, and as prize winners at the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the Corpus Christie Young Artists' Competition, the Stulberg International Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in Folkstone, England, and many others.
Mr. Forough has been an adjudicator for competitions such as the Stulberg International Competition, the Seattle Young Artists Festival, the Schubert Club, and the Sorantin International String Competition.
Presently during the summer of 2005 Mr. Forough will be on the faculty at the "Academie International de Music de Montpellier" in Montpellier, France, and at the "Beverly Hills International Chamber Music Festival and Master Classes" in Los Angeles, California. He has also been a faculty member at summer music camps such as Meadowmount School of Music, New York, Madeline Island Music Camp, Wisconsin, Indiana University String Academy, Bloomington, International School of Musical Arts, Canada, Chateau de Champs, Paris, France, and at the "Rencontres Musicales Internationale de Graves," Bordeaux, France. Mr. Forough has conducted Master classes at all of the summer camps he attended as well as at The Cleveland Institute of Music, and at the "Glenn Gould School" of the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music, Canada.
Representing the United States as "Artistic Ambassadors" Mr. Forough and his wife concertized and gave master classes in the Far East and throughout South America under the auspices of the US State Department.
Mr. Forough's concerts for international dignitaries include command performances for Queen Fabiola and Princess Paola of Belgium, the Shah of Iran, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, President Kreiske of Austria and gave a special performance at the occasion of the birthday celebration of HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand.
Mr. Forough's recital and orchestra solo appearances throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, the Middle East and in the United States have received unanimous praise by both the critics and the public alike. His live and recorded performances have been broadcast on radio and television on four continents. He has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Belgian National Radio Orchestra, NIRT, The Moscow State Orchestra, and numerous other orchestras internationally.
At age nine he entered the Royal Conservatory of Music as a student of the renowned violinist Arthur Grumiaux. Further studies were with legendary violinists and pedagogues such as David Oistrakh at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and with Josef Gingold at Indiana University.
Mr. Forough is a full time faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and is on the faculty at Roosevelt University's College of Performing Arts in Chicago. He is much in demand and sought after as a pedagogue, and his dedication to teaching has resulted in his students being members of the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The New World Symphony, Calgary Symphony, Houston Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and others. Mr. Forough also teaches highly gifted pre-college students, some of whom have distinguished themselves as first prize winners at competitions such as the International Johansen Competition, the Kingsville International Young Performers Competition, The Illinois Young Performer's Competition, The Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, ASTA, ARTS, and as prize winners at the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the Corpus Christie Young Artists' Competition, the Stulberg International Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in Folkstone, England, and many others.
Mr. Forough has been an adjudicator for competitions such as the Stulberg International Competition, the Seattle Young Artists Festival, the Schubert Club, and the Sorantin International String Competition.
Presently during the summer of 2005 Mr. Forough will be on the faculty at the "Academie International de Music de Montpellier" in Montpellier, France, and at the "Beverly Hills International Chamber Music Festival and Master Classes" in Los Angeles, California. He has also been a faculty member at summer music camps such as Meadowmount School of Music, New York, Madeline Island Music Camp, Wisconsin, Indiana University String Academy, Bloomington, International School of Musical Arts, Canada, Chateau de Champs, Paris, France, and at the "Rencontres Musicales Internationale de Graves," Bordeaux, France. Mr. Forough has conducted Master classes at all of the summer camps he attended as well as at The Cleveland Institute of Music, and at the "Glenn Gould School" of the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music, Canada.
Representing the United States as "Artistic Ambassadors" Mr. Forough and his wife concertized and gave master classes in the Far East and throughout South America under the auspices of the US State Department.
Mr. Forough's concerts for international dignitaries include command performances for Queen Fabiola and Princess Paola of Belgium, the Shah of Iran, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, President Kreiske of Austria and gave a special performance at the occasion of the birthday celebration of HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand.